Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the issues in the US‐Canada trade dispute over lumber trade, to … analyze the US and Canada's claims and positions in this dispute, and make projections of future possibilities regarding this …'s claims of unfair trade by Canada's lumber industry are not supported. Canada is in compliance with World Trade Organization …

This empirical study investigates productivity performance of Canadian (n = 43) and US (n = 95) manufacturers in the … different categories of productivity measures: financial, customer related, and internal business related. TQM firms indicate … improved performance on various productivity measures. Statistically significant differences exist between the two countries on …

trigger to improve productivity. The gains from biotechnology for farmers are now over CND 1 billion per year in Canada … and then the focus moves to the impacts for farmers in Canada. New data are gathered to estimate recent gains in the … investments in Canada are now much higher than public sector investments and thus institutional innovations have been a powerful …

Japan. Productivity improvement programmes, particularly in Canada, are examined to determine why some fail while others … succeed. Specific case studies are also presented to determine how productivity can be improved through effective human …

Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …

Abstract This paper presents a two-country intra-industry trade model with bilateral ad valorem tariffs and fixed …. However, the sum of available home and foreign varieties increases for small tariffs. Firm profits are falling in both tariff … effect for the tariff. Welfare falls when fixed export costs increase and increases for small tariffs and falls for large …

tariffs. With a tariff, the home government can affect the timing of entry to ensure that the domestic firm moves first at the …

with a reliance on tariffs over subsidies. We find that the existing theoretical literature is consistent with the cross …

practices free trade, low home tariffs yield international mergers irrespective of the substitutability levels. By contrast …, when foreign tariffs are sufficiently high and products are close substitutes, national mergers obtain in the equilibrium …. Unlike this asymmetric result of unilateral trade liberalization, we find that when bilateral tariffs are sufficiently low …

This paper presents a two-country intra-industry trade model with bilateral ad valorem tariffs and fixed export costs …, the sum of available home and foreign varieties increases for small tariffs. Firm profits are falling in both tariff and … the tariff. Welfare falls when fixed export costs increase and increases for small tariffs and falls for large tariffs, i …